LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Titanic – The Ship That Never Sank?

By Robin Gardiner
Review by Jon Jones

In 1912 the unthinkable happened – the unsinkable Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg. Or did it? It seems that for...

Therapy and day-long comfort from Willowbrook Win a rec ner My aches and pains have lessened and the stress has gone out of my life, I feel so restful.

100 runner up prizes too! Should be experienced by sufferers of: Ei...

Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 6.6 a.m.

on 25th June, 1968, the coastguard reported that flares had been sighted on Butterwick Low Sands. The lifeboat Charles Fred Grantham was launched at 6.32 in a fresh south south westerly...

RAMSGATE and DEAL. — Signals were made by the Goodwin and Gull lightships, during a fresh S.E. gale and a heavy sea, on the morning of the 31st of October.

At the same time a large flare was seen in the direction of the...

YACHT FOUND AFTER SEARCH AND TOWED IN Weymouth, Dorset. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 31st July, 1962, the Wyke coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a wireless message received from the yacht Themlyay, of Hull, stating that she...

24 September: Eastbourne Two jet skiers were attempting a passage from Newhaven to the Sovereign Light Tower when one of their craft suffered engine failure. They tried to use the craft that was still working to...

Lt Cdr David Streatfield Former Aylesbury & District chairman, on 28 March..

DURING 1936 life-boat flag days were held by 766 of the 1,071 branches of the Institution; nine fewer than in 1935. The amount collected on these days was £42,715, which was £375 less than in 1935. The number of people who...